Interstate Body Orders State Rail Rate Surcharges
The Interstate Commerce Commission gave nine state railroad commissions until November 1 to permit intrastate freight rate surcharges matching interstate increases. The ICC finds state commissions prejudicial to interstate commerce and expects higher annual freight revenues of about 1.883 million dollars. Railroads cite specific losses in Arkansas Idaho Kentucky Louisiana Nebraska Oklahoma Texas Utah and list product surcharges on furniture refined petroleum products lumber pulp wood.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Arkansas
Idaho
Kentucky
Montana
Nebraskan
Oklahoma
Texas
Utah
Louisiana
Nebraska
Youthful Woman Begins Two Year Term for Slaying
In DeWitt Arkansas Helen Spence Eaton 19 entered a two year sentence for killing Jack Worls in the courtroom where he faced trial for her father Cicero Eaton's murder. The case follows a prior 1931 trial and a separate shooting of Jim Robots, restaurant owner. The grand jury investigates Bohot's killing as Eaton denies involvement.
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Here
W. J. Waggoner
Worls
Supreme Court
Bohots
Eaton
Bohot
Remarkable Perfect Attendance Records Highlight Louisianan School
Lorena Pettit, 16, Neville high school in Monroe, has eight years of perfect attendance with no absences or tardies. She received permission to miss several hours for a cousin's funeral, not counted against her record after teacher and principal approval.
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Lorena Pettit
L. B. Pettit
South Second Street
Neville High School
Lorena
Princ Charles Kenney
Elizabeth White
Georgie Ann
Beverly Jean Folmer
F. W. Folmer
Monroe
Expulsion of Churchmen Debated in Mexico City
Mexico City October 11. The chamber of deputies was scheduled to debate a radical measure to expel all priests and seize church property, urged by the Vera Cruz legislature. The memorial seeks loss of Mexican citizenship for priests and expulsion of foreign clergy, with church assets to be used for public services. The move follows papal encyclical on church persecution and government actions against church leaders.
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Mexico City
U.P
Chamber of Deputies
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Speculators Lose Ground as Dollar Rebound Dampens Raid
New York observers say another failed dollar raid has left foreign speculators puzzled as the dollar recovers against European gold currencies. Bankers credit the shift to the US gold standard stance and reduced gold drains after June.
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New York
Dortch Pleads Guilty in Olla Bank Robbery Case
Lannie Dortch pleads guilty in Jena to robbing the Olla State Bank with about $6,000 taken. Jury had earlier indicted him for harboring Jim Yarrell, later nolle prosequi. Yarrell and Edgar Turner remain jailed in LaSalle, to be tried in coming weeks.
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Caldwell Parish
Lannie Dortch
Jim Yarrell
Olla State Bank
Dortch
Jena
Olla Bank
Columbia
Nolle
Yarrell
Edgar Turner
LaSalle Parish
Turner
Orange
Texas
Indianapolis
Ind
Fear of Tornado Grips Vera Cruz Port and Coast
Vera Cruz residents fear a tornado as strong winds lash the port and forecasters warn the storm may intensify today. Reports say a system struck Yucatan and moves west while rivers in the Central Chiapas Plateau flood after a day of heavy rain threatening several towns. The Weather Bureau issued an advisory noting a tropical disturbance likely near Campeche moving west with diminished intensity.
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Mexico City
Vera Cruz
Yucatan
Chiapas
Washington
Weather Bureau
Campeche
Mexico
Court Rejects Ballot Recount in Four Precincts
In Brooksville Florida a judge rejected a recount of four Hernando county precincts from the June Democratic primary. Officials alleged tampered ballots and fraud after recount figures showed Crane gaining 244 votes to Peterson’s 117.
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Brooksville
Fla
Hernando County
J. Hardin Peterson
Herbert J. Crane
Henry Stringer
Crane
Peterson
Jury Terms Automobile Accident Unavoidable
A coroner's jury in Shreveport ruled the highway crash near the city was unavoidable and cleared Judge E P Mills of blame for the fatal accident Friday night. W H Ryan of Shreveport was killed when struck by Mills' car while fixing a tire. Mills said bright lights blinded him as he passed.
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Shreveport
Here
E. P. Mills
Caddo Parish
Mills
W. H. Ryan
Ryan
Insanity Plea Procedure Altered by Louisiana Law
A. L. Cousmans faces a changed insanity plea process after Louisiana's 1932 law reform. The state lunacy commission is no longer the trigger for a jury trial. judges may appoint mental experts to observe the defendant and report within 30 days, shaping subsequent hearings.
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A. L. Cousmans
N. D. Mathis
Coleman Avenue
West Monroe
Louisiana
Pay Cut for Relief Plan Workers Takes Effect
Effective yesterday the State relief employment bureau reduced daily pay from 2.50 to 1.50 dollars for workers placed through the bureau in the old World building. Robert Anders announced the change aligning with a statewide revised scale and noted additional crews and registrations shifting to Bosco West and other satellite offices.
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State Relief Employment Bureau
Robert Anders
Old World
Anders
New Orleans
Suny
South Grand Street
Bosco
West
Civil War Flares Across China From Manchuria to Fukien
Reports say hundreds of thousands of soldiers wage civil war across China and Manchuria from Manchuria to Fukien and Szechuan to Shantung. Gen Feng Yu-Hsiang, the Christian General, may lead a northwest alliance against Chang Hsiao-liang at Peiping amid rising unrest in Chihli and Peiping.
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Shanghai
China
Manchuria
Fukien
Szechuan Province
Shantung
Chihli
Peiping
Feng Yu-Hsiang
Kalgan
Chang Hsiao- Liang
North China
Dice proposal to settle Kansas senate race by Haldeman-Julius
E Haldeman Julius of Girard invites voters to replace the Kansas senate race between McGill and Paulen with a dice throw under Afro-American craps rules. The socialist publisher asserts the winner would take the seat and implies current election laws would be bypassed, offering no clear method to meet legal requirements.
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Girard
Kans
Wu.p
E. Haldeman-Julius
Kansas
U. S
George McGill
Ben Paulen
Senate
Washington
Haldeman-Julius
Columbus Day Carnival At St Matthew’s School Campus
The Monroe lodge of Knights of Columbus hosts a carnival at St Matthew's parochial school campus and cafeteria on October 12 from 6 to 10 p.m. with music games exhibits and an oyster supper. Public invited. crowd expected to celebrate Columbus discovery of America.
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Monroe Lodge
Knights of Columbus
St. Matthew's
Columbus
San Salvador
East Indies
Eight Prisoners From U S Court Moved to Shreveport Jail
Eight federal prisoners sent last week from the current court term to Shreveport by U S marshals G A Gehringer and A Collins. Most expected to be sent next to Leavenworth penitentiary. Names and charges include Whittington McDonnell Ballard Hefflin Farrell Aycock DeForrest Cohen with offenses ranging from postal law violations to narcotics and larceny. Whittington, a Quachita parish farmer, convicted for possessing $116 in stolen stamps and sentenced to 18 months at Leavenworth.
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Shreveport
G. A. Gehringer
A. Collins
United States
Feciae
Leavenworth
W. L. Whittington
Albert McDonnell
Dyer
C. J. Ballard
A. G. Hefflin
James Farrell
W. L. Aycock
A. F. DeForrest
John Cohen
Whittington
Quachita Parish
Monroe
President of College Thought Dies by Own Action
Washington Pennsylvania October 11 The body of Simon S Baker aged 65 former president of Washington and Jefferson College was found in a field two miles northeast of Washington by a pipeline worker Police said he apparently killed himself Dr Baker disappeared in Pittsburgh yesterday after leaving his home for a stroll He resigned as president last year after a student strike over the dismissal of two professors and possible action against two football players in a hotel incident
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Washington, Pa
Simon S. Baker
Washington and Jefferson College
Washington
Baker
Pittsburgh
Washington and Jefferson
Rattlesnake Pete Peter Gruber Dies in Rochester
Peter Gruber known as Rattlesnake Pete died at his Rochester home. His expertise with venomous snakes made him internationally famous. He had appeared in public venues and lectures showcasing rattlesnakes and related dangers.
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Rattlesnake Pete
Rochester
N. Y
Peter Gruber
Pete
Virginia redistricting declared unconstitutional by court
The Virginia supreme court of appeals ruled the 1932 redistricting act unconstitutional. It granted a writ of mandamus forcing certification of Dr. William Moseley Brown and Charles C. Berkeley as candidates at large for Congress, and also ordered R. Lindsay Gordon to be certified. Brown and Berkeley had run in 1929 on an anti-Smith Republican coalition ticket.
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Richmond
Supreme Court of Appeals
William Moseley Brown
Charles C. Berkeley
Secretary of the Commonwealth
Congress
R. Lindsay Gordon
Brown
Berkeley
Gordon
Ex-guard defendants attempt to show youth killed himself
Defense witnesses recount claims by Robert Blake that he sought to arrange a suicide story to explain the sweat box death of Arthur Maillefort. James Birmingham, a convict,testified Blake asked him to join in the plan, and Harry Schneider corroborated seeing Maillefort gesture to hang himself.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Robert Blake
Arthur Maillefort
James Birmingham
Blake
Sunbeam
Harry Schneider
Deetroit
Maillefort
Schneider
Maillefert
George Courson
Birmingham
Jersey
C. A. Arriett
Courson
Central Control Board Expels 20 Soviet Members
The central control committee of the Communist Party expelled 20 members including Gregoriy Zinoviev and Leo Kameneff. Exiles and former Trotzky followers faced charges of anti party literature opposing collectivization. The plenum proclaimed the end of a talist stabilization period amid anticipated struggles and revolutions.
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Moscow
Central Control Committee
The
Communist Party
Gregory Zincovieff
Comintern
Leo Kameneff
Leon Trotsky
Turkey
Trotzky
Zeinovieff
Kameneff
Toadblall Tern
Ride Murder Mystery Puzzles Brooklyn Police
The body of 36 year old Mrs. Gemma Pignataro was found beside a wrecked car in Dyker Heights after she left to care for a neighbor’s sick child. Investigators questioned her husband and two men as they weighed gangland links and other theories in this fatal “ride” case.
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New York
Brooklyn
Gemma Pigtataro
Dyker Heights
Frankie Yale
Magnifico
al Capone
New Jersey
Fiori
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